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      Geoff I have also thought of the same thing around here these days I still see quite a few flatbeds not many curtains, but most of loads I see also don’t require tarping  ever since they come out with the curtains I was thinking that right from the start they look like a pain in the ass to load
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      I got to pull a Conestoga once in a while. This is bags of sand going to US Pipe in Lynchburg.  Steel going to N.B. Handy in Davenport, Florida. I always put at least one chain, usually two, on these stacks of sheets, plus belly straps. Most of the other guys threw 2 straps across the top and called it a day. This is one of my favorite pictures. Zina took it from her car, we were on the bridge on 295 in Jacksonville, FL.
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      OD loads is about all flats are used for now over here but yes tarping sure was part of the job.Not now though, I know some of the freight companys pulling out of the port where we are have to turn down or delay taking loads untill a driver who can rope/chain and tarp a load is available.Indeed I have been asked a good few times would I do some runs for them.Unfortunaly I cant as the company I work for would dismiss me on the spot if they found out.The reason is I would not have enough of a rest peroid to do my next turn of duty for them ......Sure would like to do some to keep my hand in practise..... Paul
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      Oh boy do I remember that so well. Drive 5/6 hours...spend 4/5 hours ropeing and tarping a load then 5/6 hours driving back.Its no wonder the Curtainsider took over.Open curtains, load,strap the load Close curtains.On the way back in 1/2 hours...... Paul
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      I've folded tarps and they had a little bit of snow in them, and unfolded them weeks later and the snow would still be there, hadn't melted even when it had been above freezing for days.
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      Load of steel I took to Bristol, TN. one time. Picked it up in Richmond and accumulated this much ice along the way.  Load of lumber, I had 4 straps on each stack, and a belly strap on the highest stack. Load of beams I took to sunny Florida. I had a chain looped around the top stack in front that went in front of the bottom stack, and an extra chain or two on the bottom stack. I've seen more pictures and videos of trucks that had beams or pipe go through the cab in the last 10 years or so than I did the whole time I was driving, 42+ years. And the one thing that every single one had in common was that the beams were strapped, no chains. I think now the thought is "I'm not going to chain this, I ain't got time. I'll throw a few straps across it and ride".
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      - Then when it was time, reach through the wheel again, slip high to low and 2nd to 3rd {if I correctly remember 60 years ago}.
      - The Igneous rocks were too heavy and the grade too steep for me to ever get into 3rd high.
      - The crusher team were the mechanics for everything and had replaced the old Mack's tranny gears because they had been ground too much. - - They later told me they didn't believe me when I told them I slipped all my shifts because the gears showed no wear.
      - Except for start and stop; Not once did I use the clutch because that made my leg ache too much after an hour or so.
      - I slipped all my standard 4 speed shift vehicles all my life...just to be with the music of the engine and car or truck.
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      - I hardly ever change disc pads or brake shoes because I always slipped my gears downshifting...
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